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August 18, 2016 5:52PM (UTC)

CNN has come under unrelenting attacks from Donald Trump's Twitter fingers all campaign season, but now even his most loyal surrogates are facing blistering criticism from the Trump campaign as they struggle to spin their candidate's apparent implosion.

“[CNN has] a panel of 8 professional, liberal but professional, people on a panel, and they find like one Trump supporter from the street, who has no real political knowledge, and they just happen to be supporter, and they put that person up against 8 people who do this for a living and try to make it seem like that’s a fair fight," Trump Jr. said on Hannity's radio program earlier this week.

"I mean, it’s so ridiculous I can’t even watch it anymore.”

The next day, Trump Organization special counsel Michael Cohen appeared on CNN to provide one of the most embarrassing surrogate moments of the entire year.

For the third time since clinching the GOP nomination, Trump announced a major shake-up at the top level of his campaign. When asked about the hiring of Breitbart News CEO Stephen K. Bannon, a man who has never ran an electoral campaign, as CEO of the Trump campaign, Cohen debated the semantics. Upset with how the media was characterizing the shake-up, Cohen insisted that the “change-up” was not, in fact, “a shake-up.”